We are facing a climate emergency. More than 11,000 of the world’s scientists and successive reports issued by the International Governmental Panel on Climate Change say the evidence of human-induced global warming is irrefutable.

The Globe and Mail – ROBERT MUGGAH Published Jun. 17, 2017 The world is buckling under multiple pressures, including climate change, inequality, migration, pandemics and terrorism. Yet, at precisely the moment collective action is most pressing, international co-operation is coming unstuck. Twentieth-century supranational entities such…

06 Jun 2017 Robert MuggahResearch Director, Igarapé Institute The world is facing unprecedented levels of population displacement. At least 65 million people are on the move, including 21.3 million refugees and 31 million internally displaced persons since the beginning of 2016. That means that one…

The Guardian – This week, New York and LA reacted very differently to the same bomb scare. So how does a city judge how seriously to take such threats – and is it really that easy to bring a major metropolis to a halt?

Independent – There are better ways to manage our cities. How about an effort to deal with poverty itself?

Latin America cities are among the most violent and insecure on earth. The regional homicide rate is three times the global average

Documentary with Robert Muggah about urban resilience in situations of chronic violence

This report considers how citizen security have been operationalised across Latin America, assembling more than 1,300 citizen interventions across the region since the late 1990s.

This edited volume provides a critical overview of the new stabilization agenda in international relations.

A research on urbanization challenges, focused on the connections between urban violence, inequalities and poverty and on identifying the most effective strategies for addressing these challenges.